Readers offer opinions on Premier Scott Moe’s leadership, Saskatoon and Saskatchewan election coverage, climate action advocates and a column on socialism.
We have had coaches whose players have manipulated them in unethical ways, simply to line their own pockets. A good coach has two priorities: the health and education of his team.
If you can’t look after those two basics, both you and your team will suffer. And so will our province. This province deserves better.
Garry Johnston, Saskatoon
Journalists should avoid interpretation
Media reporting is not mediation. It is not the job of the media to assist politicians to convey intended meaning. Readers and viewers should be credited with enough intelligence to interpret quotations, rather than being led.
Interpretations are often intentional, to sway people based on the bias of the outlet. Sanewashing, media outlets reframing ludicrous remarks to make them sound rational, is more dangerous.
We are going to experience both a provincial and federal election soon. It would be nice to hope that the media would revert to reporting what politicians actually say, rather than attempting to articulate what was meant.
David Steele, Saskatoon
Climate claim in letter misleading
Vermette quotes a City of Saskatoon survey saying “71 per cent of Saskatonians consider climate change to be the most important environmental challenge facing the city” and they tries to equate that to the majority of the residents putting that as their top civic priority.
The survey was not about what Saskatoon people thought in general, but only about what they thought on this one particular idea and presenting it as the most important issue for voters is just not correct.
Ari Avivi, Saskatoon
Column on socialism showed ignorance
Cosh appears to accept the false premise that an extreme, right-wing, fascist political party, the Nazi Party in Germany, was of a socialist persuasion simply because the word ‘Socialistich’ is part of their identifying moniker.
He also suggests that the Nazis were in some ideological partnership with the Soviet Communists, ignoring the fact that the Russian version of forced socialism was the primary, chosen enemy of Hitler’s regime.
Cosh’s equating of Nazism with socialism is about the same stretching of reality as it would be to call Donald Trump’s site “Truth Social” a socialist perspective, just because that word appears in the site’s name.
Bob Kramchynski, Alvena
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